December 1, 2023
Furio Rinaldi— Striking for its large number of figures (nine) and ambitious architecture, the monumental Virgin and Child is Sandro Botticelli’s largest surviving tondo. Little is known of this important… READ MORE
July 11, 2023
The new edition of The Artist’s Reality, Mark Rothko’s revered book on artistic practice and philosophy, features an afterword written for this occasion by artist and award-winning author Makoto Fujimura, whose own… READ MORE
October 28, 2021
Listen to this conversation with Diana K. Tuite, the Katz Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Colby College Museum of Art. Her exhibition Bob Thompson: This House Is… READ MORE
June 11, 2019
Marcia B. Hall — Paul Gauguin sought to express his sense of spirituality in his paintings. Weary with the materialism of sophisticated European society, he escaped to the South Seas… READ MORE
January 20, 2016
Jennifer Raab — Years ago, standing in front of Frederic Edwin Church’s The Heart of the Andes (1859) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, I wondered, why is this painting… READ MORE
September 2, 2015
Corita Kent and the Language of Pop is an exhibition opening this Thursday, September 3rd, at the Harvard Art Museums. The Boston Globe recently published a piece in which Cate… READ MORE
June 2, 2015
Today we are excited to introduce you to a new series on our our Yale University Press Art & Architecture blog: Art + Science. Posts featured here will occupy that… READ MORE
June 12, 2014
Bibiana K. Obler— Here’s an assignment. Read my book. Then read the following excerpt from a letter from Wassily Kandinsky to Hans Arp, dated November 1912: The disharmoniousness (one might… READ MORE
May 22, 2014
David Ebony— Richard Estes is one of a very few painters from the original Photorealist movement of the 1960s and early ’70s who remains true to the precepts of the… READ MORE
April 19, 2014
Clare Elliott – One year after its opening at the Menil Collection, Houston, Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible has made its third appearance, at the Neuberger Art Museum at SUNY, Purchase…. READ MORE
Between Memory and History